The Secret Life of Words (2005)

Director:

Isabel Coixet

Guionista:

Isabel Coixet (writer)

Release Date:

21 octubre 2005 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Doctor | Nurse Patient Relationship | Oil Rig | Nurse

Awards:

21 wins & 14 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Touching and smart

Cast

Sarah Polley	...	Hanna
Tim Robbins	...	Josef
Sverre Anker Ousdal	...	Dimitri (as Sverre Ousdal)
Javier Cámara	...	Simon
Danny Cunningham	...	Scott
Dean Lennox Kelly	...	Liam (as Dedan Lenox Kelly)
Emmanuel Idowu	...	Abdul
Eddie Marsan	...	Victor
Steven Mackintosh	...	Doctor Sulitzer
Julie Christie	...	Inge
Reg Wilson	...	Factory Manager
Leonor Watling	...	Josef's friend's wife
Daphne Brown	...	Old Lady on Bus
Muriel Hobson	...	Old Lady on Bus
Joshua Miligan	...	Child

También conocida como:

The Secret Life of Words (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
Vida secreta de las palabras, La (Spain)
Vida secreta de les paraules, La (Spain: Catalan title)
Vida secreta de las palabras, La (International: Spanish title) [es]

Duración:

115 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Sweden:15 | Hungary:16 | Argentina:13 | Germany:6 | Portugal:M/12 | Malaysia:U | Netherlands:MG6 | Singapore:NC-16 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Spain:13 | South Africa:13L

Filming Locations:

Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Company:

El Deseo S.A.

Trivialidades:

The story about a nurse named Cora that Josef tells to Hanna is a short-story named "La señorita Cora" by argentinean writer Julio Cortázar from his book "Todos los fuegos el fuego".

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: In order to fly out to the rig, Hanna would have had to do a three-day off-shore survival course. There seems to be no indication that she does this in the film.

Quotes:

Josef: I thought um, you and I, maybe we could go away somewhere. Together. One of these days. Today. Right now. Come with me.
Hanna: No, I don't think that's going to be possible.
Josef: Why not?
Hanna: Um, because I think that if we go away to someplace together, I'm afraid that, ah, one day, maybe not today, maybe, maybe not tomorrow either, but one day suddenly, I may begin to cry and cry so very much that nothing or nobody can stop me and the tears will fill the room and I won't be able to breath and I will pull you down with me and we'll both drown.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References "Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo" (1964)

Soundtrack:

Historie d'un amour

Touching and smart

Two persons trying to cope with the past: a splendid Sarah Polley and (as always) a great Tim Robbins. This is a smart and very interesting film about the way we try to escape from the past: with love and with words (and with silences). I also enjoyed the rest of the characters: it is amazing how they are described with small details here and there, and you finish the movie wanting to know more about the rest of the cast. Isabel Coixet did a splendid work here of portrayal of the more inner parts of the human soul. Please check the music of the film, the selection is really good and all the songs fit brilliantly in the plot of the film.